[Cool and tough architect × gloomy and paranoid boss in Beijing]
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Marriage first, love later|It has been planned for a long time|Strong and sweet abuse|HE BE
Alias: "Mr. Xie, please fulfill the agreement when the agreement expires"
When Jiang Yanshu was twenty-four years old, the architecture firm left by his mother was on the verge of bankruptcy.
In order to uphold her mother's legacy, she was forced to sign a three-year engagement and marry Xie Jinlan, a man who was rumored to be cold-blooded and ruthless, and the Beijing circle turned pale after hearing about it.
Xie Jinlan is thirty-one years old and the helmsman of the Xie Group. He is dignified and gloomy, and avoids strangers.
On a rainy night, she ran away from her parents' dinner party in embarrassment and saw the black Bentley parked slowly on the street corner.
The car window was lowered, the man's brows were covered with a coldness that couldn't be overcome, and his voice was as low as a cello:
"Would you like to marry me?"
She thought it was a deal where everyone gets what he needs, a desperate choice.
She abided by her duty, stayed distant and indifferent to him in front of others, and became a "superficial couple" who respected each other as if they were guests.
Onlookers in the circle laughed at her as just a tool wife clinging to a wealthy family, waiting to see her end up being abandoned like worn shoes.
Until a certain cocktail party, when his colleagues made things difficult for her in public, he walked through the crowd to protect her behind him, his eyes as sharp as knives:
"My Mrs. Xie, is it your turn to comment?"
When she returned to the villa at night, the indifferent man in front of her pressed her against the wall and said in a low and broken voice:
"Yan Shu, it's not written in the agreement... I want you to love me."
Jiang Yanshu always thought that this marriage was just her one-sided redemption.
Little did he know that behind this seemingly fair game, there was a shocking secret that he had been guarding for seven years——
The truth about her mother's death, and the copper key to the old house on Wutong Lane hidden in her handbag, have already tightly bound the fate of the two of them.
He waited for seven years until the day when she was desperate.
It turns out that all "accidental encounters" are the deep feelings he has planned for a long time.
Reading Guide
1. Character design: The female protagonist is sober and engaged in her career, the male protagonist is affectionate and paranoid (no imprisonment, no violence), the two are clean and 1v1.
2. Plot: Marriage before love in the early stage + slap-in-the-face and cool writing, suspense and mystery solving in the middle stage (mother's life experience) + chasing his wife in the crematorium (little sadism and joy), HE BE in the later stage
3. Lightning protection: The male protagonist is slightly possessive, but respects the female protagonist; he has no white moonlight substitute and refuses to subjugate the female protagonist.
Purpose: In a contractual relationship bound by interests, the male and female protagonists break down barriers and suspicions and pursue equal and sincere love. Women adhere to their own careers and personal independence, do not rely on power, and complete two-way self-growth and redemption.